India suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of Bangladesh

In the final match of the Super Four stage of Asia Cup 2023, Bangladesh defeated India by 6 runs following an interesting contest.

Chasing Bangladesh’s target of 266 runs, the entire Indian team was bowled out for 259 runs in the last over, with Shibman Gill scoring 121 runs. Apart from this, Akshar Patel was the top scorer with 42 runs.

In the match played in Colombo, India won the toss and bowled well once morest Bangladesh.

Bangladesh scored 265 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in the allotted 50 overs, Shakib Al Hasan scored 80 runs.

5 changes have been made in both the teams for today’s match of the Super Four stage. Important players like Hardik Pandya, Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bhamra have been rested by the Indian team.

Bangladesh innings

Bangladesh did not start well once morest India, 3 batsmen were returned to the pavilion at a total score of 28, opening batsman Liton Das fell to Shirdal Thakur for zero, followed by Tanzeed Hasan for 13 while Inamul Haq also got out for just 4 runs.

After that, Mehdi Hasan Miraz also left the team following scoring 13 runs, in such a situation, a partnership of 101 runs was established between captain Shakib Al Hasan and Tawhid, but then Shakib got out following scoring 80 runs while Tawhid played an innings of 54 runs.

In the final overs, Naseem Ahmed scored 44 runs and Mehidi Hasan scored 29 runs, in addition to this, Rasgin Hasan also scored 14 runs and took the team’s score to 265 runs.

For India, Shirdal Thakur took 3 wickets and Mohammad Shami took 2 wickets while Akshar Patel, Jadeja also took one wicket each.

Talking following the toss, Indian captain Rohit Sharma said that he wanted to bat in floodlights, so he decided to bowl first.

It should be noted that India and Sri Lanka have already qualified for the final of the Asia Cup. The final of the Asia Cup between the two teams will be played on Sunday.